Jessica here! In honor of the publication of the book collecting emails, texts and IMs from mothers I co-wrote with Doree Shafrir, Love, Mom, here are our own mothers' answers to your mom-related questions.

Former Jezebel editor Jessica here! Anna has kindly allowed me to shamelessly promote the book I co-wrote with Doree Shafrir, Love, Mom. In honor of its publication tomorrow, Doree and I are offering our own moms…

I'm not very good at goodbyes, so I will make this short, sweet, and panda-laden.

Last April, Lenore Skenazy wrote a column in the now-defunct New York Sun about how she let her 9-year-old take the subway alone.

Today's Bestie is turning us into a hobosexual.

All was well on the messageboards for Mumsnet, a British parenting site. Ladies were bonding nicely over breastfeeding and blankies, that is, until a group of entrenched commenters went rogue and founded an invite-only forum.

Cate Blanchett is on the cover of February's Vanity Fair. Per the brief interview within, Cate the Great is just as you'd think she is: smart, humble, no-nonsense, against Botox.

• Sara Trumble, the nanny who used to take care of wee Beatrice McCartney, is suing Bea's mum, Heather Mills, because "Mills required her to blow-dry Mills' hair, work unreasonable hours, and spray-tan a naked Mills."

[Los Angeles, CA, December 23. Image via INF.]

Want to see a video of the cutest sleeping Corgi in the known universe?

We're happy that today's Bestie is not facing extinction…

[Los Angeles, CA, December 24. Image via INF.]

Word on the street is that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady popped the question to supermodel gf Gisele Bündchen whilst on a private jet en route to Boston. Mazel tov to the ridiculously attractive couple. [Star]

[Los Angeles, CA, December 24. Image via INF.]

[Los Angeles, CA, December 24. Image via INF.]

More details are emerging about Sherry Johnston, the grandmother of Bristol Palin's baby on the way, and her drug arrest for felony charges relating to OxyContin sales.

[Los Angeles, CA, December 24. Image via INF.]

[Los Angeles, CA, December 24. Image via INF.]

[Los Angeles, CA, December 24. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]

• Jennifer Aniston admits two things about that naughty nude GQ cover: that she was drunk when they snapped the pics and that they photoshopped her already perfect funbags. [NYDN]